Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 01 Jul 2001 20:06:08 -0400 | | From | Adam Schrotenboer <> | | Subject | Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU! |
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Perhaps I should say again that my current IT job is working w/ small businesses and personal/home installations. In these cases, as well as with others, it is not so much the OS that I have a problem w/. It is the insistence of an all Macroshaft solution. Windows isn't totally bad. I would never say so. But being forced into M$ Office, MSIE, etc, and trying to support these arguably inferior products is a real PITA.
IE, Windows Web Sharing, MS Frontpage, etc are all bad knockoffs of other better products (IE isn't too bad, but I still don't like it, and I dislike Outlook{, Express} even more). Because they're M$ products, end [l]users believe that they must be more compatible or better than other solutions, (such as Netscape, Netscape Composer, WinRoute, etc).
M$ products are not all bad, but their marketing efforts and predatory efforts to lock people into these products is bad.
B/c M$ products are for the end luser, the lowest common denominator, I find them annoying when they try to fix my "mistakes", b/c they think they know better than I do. M$ is going toward Macintrash, point & drool, etc.
J Sloan wrote:
>Tony Hoyle wrote: > >>I didn't choose to use MS, I merely chose to be able to pay the rent. >>The choice is basically use MS or don't work in the computer industry. >> > >Fortunately it's not so from what I can see, although microsoft >is frantically working to make it so. > >>Hell, I'd even take a pay cut if someone had a Linux job on offer. >>Never seen one... never likely to either in the near future. >> > >Have you been living under a rock for the last 2 years? > >Go to dice.com and search on Linux and you will numerous >hits. My day job is to admin Linux, Solaris and HP-UX, and >I also get a lot of side jobs doing Linux installs and remote >Linux admin. > >I wish I had time to take on all the Linux work offered to me. > >cu > >jjs > > >
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